Cubomania

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Cubomania is a surrealist method of making collages in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the squares are then reassembled without regard for the image, automatically[1] "or at random,"[2][3] or a collage made using this method, a "rearrangement... suffic[ing] to create an entirely new work."[4] It has been described as a "statistical method".[5] Robert Hirsch has seemed to imply that this process can be done with digital photography.[6]

Penelope Rosemont and Joseph Jablonski have suggested that cubomania, with other surrealist methods, can "subvert the enslaving 'message' of advertising and to free images from repressive contexts."[7]

An application of cubomania
An application of cubomania

Cubomania was invented by the Romanian surrealist Gherasim Luca.[8][9]

Using cubomania as a method for arranging soundscapes has been suggested.[10]

See also Cut-up technique, surautomatism

This definition of cubomania is to be distinguished from the use of the word to mean "love of cubes" (or, perhaps, Rubik's Cube),[11] or the joke about the possibility of its relating to compulsive dice playing in Shomit Dutta's translation of Aristophanes' The Wasps,[12] and other related uses.[13]


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  1. ^ EduWho.com. Retrieved on 2007-0921.
  2. ^ Hirsch, Robert (2007). Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. Focal Press, 209. ISBN 978-0240808550. 
  3. ^ Michelles of Delaware: Originals. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
  4. ^ Rosemont, Franklin (2003). Joe Hill: The IWW & The Making Of A Revolutionary Working Class Counterculture. Charles H. Kerr, 500. 
  5. ^ Surrealist games - SourceryForge. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
  6. ^ Hirsch, p.209
  7. ^ (2000) Surrealist Experiences: 1001 Dawns, 221 Midnights. Black Swan Press, 125. ISBN 978-0941194433. 
  8. ^ Fine Art prints 3D Surrealism Pictures Neo-surrealism Art. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
  9. ^ U B U W E B :: Gherasim Luca. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
  10. ^ Dain's Blog: Surrealism - The Techniques (cubomania}. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
  11. ^ The Rubik's cube history. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
  12. ^ (2007) Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics), 11. ISBN 978-0140449693. 
  13. ^ MEDCICLOPEIDA. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.

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